Jay Nixon

On Oct. 24, 1968, at Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden, in the very heartland of the “intellectual morons,” as the third-party presidential candidate George Wallace was given to say, Wallace told a cheering overflow crowd of 20,000 about a protester who had lain down in front of Lyndon B. Johnson’s limousine. Wallace’s takeaway: “When November comes, the first time they lie down in front of my limousine, it’ll be the last one they ever lay down in front of.” Protesters shouted in the arena. “After Nov. 5, you anarchists are through in this country,” Wallace told the demonstrators. “You’d better have your say now.” Outside the hall, Wallace supporters and adversaries clashed with each...

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